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Old 19-10-11, 02:46 AM   #11
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Makes me think of the Menger Sponge.

Mindboggling. The ultimate iteration of a Menger sponge has infinitely large surface area, and infinitely small volume, so it's vast, but doesn't take up any space. Fantastic.

Georg Cantor's work into infinities of differing sizes is something that always makes my head spin too
Sounds like a 3d fractal? closest thing we got is aerogel
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Sounds like a 3d fractal?
Ish - it's stunningly simple in construction principle for something so weird in actuality.
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